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Cell Planning Process
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Cell Planning Process
Cell Planning can be described briefly as all the activities involved in determining the
number of sites that shall be used, type of equipments and their configuration inorder
to ensure continuous coverage and good quality.
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Traffic and Coverage Analysis
The cell planning process starts with a traffic and coverage analysis. The analysis
should produce information about the geographical area and the expected capacity
needed needed.
The types of data collected are:
Cost, Coverage, Traffic demand and its distribution, GoS, Available Frequencies.
The traffic distribution can be estimated based on:
Population distribution, car usage distribution, income level distribution, Telephone usage.
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Population distribution, car usage distribution, income level distribution, Telephone usage.
Nominal Cell Plan
After compilation of the data received from the traffic and coverage analysis, a
coverage and capacity dimensioning will be done to produce the nominal cell plan.
The Nominal Cell Plan is a graphical representation of the network which simply looks
like a cell pattern on a map.
Sites Surveys
The sites where the radio equipment will be placed are visited, it is necessary to assess
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the real environment to determine whether it is a suitable location or not.
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System Design
After the surveys from field are performed the design for each site is done including:
Site Structure, Height, Azimuth, Tilts, Types of Cabinets, Antennas and Feeders.
Implementation
This includes sites installation, commissioning testing the hardware and drive testing to
ensure that the sites are behaving well.
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System Tuning
After the system has been installed it is continuously monitored and evaluated to
determine how well it meets the demand. This is called System Tuning and it involves:
Ch ki th t th fi l l h b f ll i l t d Checking that the final plan has been successfully implemented.
Evaluating the customer complaints.
Checking the network performance and parameters settings.
The system needs constant retuning due to the fact that the traffic and the number of
subscribers continuously increase.
The network may reach the point where it must be expanded so that it can manage the
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The network may reach the point where it must be expanded so that it can manage the
increasing load and new traffic and now the coverage and traffic analysis is performed
and the cell planning cycle is repeated.
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